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Home Front: Politix
Deep State Hates America First Policy
2019-10-27
[Townhall] After the longest war in the history of our country, it is time for our troops to return home. In 2001, the United States responded to the horrific terrorist attacks of 9/11 by sending our military to Afghanistan on a mission to destroy Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. We were successful in destroying their terrorist camps, killing and capturing Al-Qaeda leaders, and forcing Bin Laden out of the country.

Amazingly, our military is still in Afghanistan, although the Taliban control over half of the country. Of course, President Trump and his supporters want to bring these troops home, but he is facing enormous resistance within the government, including the Defense Department.

During the war in Afghanistan, the administration of President George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein from power. It was believed that he harbored weapons of mass destruction; however, none were ever discovered.
Not true. We had contemporaneous reports and personal witness here at Rantburg of troops harmed by huge storage bunkers full of leaking barrels of insecticides, far, far beyond the needs of the farmers and gardeners in Iraq over many years. There was the nuclear thingy, buried under that researcher’s rosebushes, waiting to be put back to work, and of course other bunkers full of barrels of yellowcake, waiting to be refined. Not to mention whatever it was that was burnt in the canals for weeks before the 2003 invasion, and the endless convoy going back and forth tio the Bekaa Valley, followed by one of Saddam Hussein’s dutiful daughters and family going into exile. It wasn’t just Daddy’s gold she was hiding for him. But the New York Times, et al, had their narrative, and President Bush’s team lacked Donald Trump’s gleeful combativeness and Twitter account.
Eventually, Hussein was captured and executed, and, fortunately, Bin Laden was also killed in Pakistan in 2011 after a daring Navy Seal Team 6 mission.

After many twists and turns in Iraq, the terrorist group ISIS was largely destroyed, the country was stabilized, and most of our military forces departed. Today, the United States maintains 5,000 troops in the country.

While some military presence in the region is worthwhile to monitor terrorist strongholds, it does not have the same type of importance for our economy. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, this region of the world was incredibly important to our economy. Today, while it is still critical to Europe and other areas of the world, it is not as vital to the United States. Fortunately, our country does not "need" their oil, we are energy independent for the first time in many decades.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#5  ^ Poor fella has my sympathies. Damned conjunctions have gotten quite brazen about thwarting my intentions as well. ;-)
Posted by: Skunky Sforza6003   2019-10-27 23:30  

#4  Amazingly, our military is still in Afghanistan, although the Taliban control over half of the country.

Although? I think he's using the wrong conjunction. The word he's looking for is "because".
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2019-10-27 23:00  

#3  Council on Foreign Relations

Did the inspectors find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Feb 3, 2005

Yes--and they destroyed more of them than the U.S.-led coalition did during the Gulf War. Among other things, U.N. inspectors located hundreds of tons of chemical weapons agents and thousands more tons of the chemicals used to make them; a major biological weapons production facility; machines for separating out radioactive isotopes that could be used to fuel a nuclear bomb; and dozens of missiles, launching pads, and missile warheads for both conventional and chemical munitions. Inspectors were stunned by the volume of information and material they found, and surprised that Iraq’s weapons programs were much more advanced than they had expected.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-10-27 13:41  

#2  They, the top echelon of policy makers, go to all the same parties and share the same extended friends. It is easy, so very easy to believe in "One World First!" policies because it means that you don't have to be loyal to any local place or organizations -- rather like a cloud of mosquitoes that suck blood wherever it is convenient.
Posted by: magpie   2019-10-27 12:27  

#1  They'd lose their war and thus 4th e meaning of their lives. No wonder they're furious.
Posted by: Herb McCoy    2019-10-27 08:55  

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